Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
incredibly school
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
crazy school childhood
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.
became clinic high kansas medical outside school tech
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
decent equipment exist fourth miners move number plants roads schools starting virginia west
We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.
girl school kids
I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.
art easy empty industry music spaces
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
bad
The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
good
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
art freaked people totally unless worried
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
sort
I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.
driving people wanting
I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.
alone complete computer hours work
I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
record
I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.
It's interesting to be a front person who is controlling the majority of the sound.